AJMER

New Delhi: A high-level Environment Ministry panel has accorded green signal to the development of no-frill airports at Kishangarh in Rajasthan's Ajmer and Belgaum in Karnataka.
The Expert Appraisal Committee for Projects related to Infrastructure Development, however, did not express a lenient view towards Airport Authority of India's proposal to have...

New Delhi: India on Sunday signed three agreements with the US for developing smart cities in Ajmer, Allahabad and Visakhapatnam, with the government saying that the agreements would make significant contribution to building such cities in the country.
The agreements were signed by the United States Trade and Development Agency...

Bihar: Five persons died after being run over by Ajmer-Sealdah Express train in Bihar's Sasaram district on Saturday.
The incident took place near Kamahu railway station, where 4 railway contractors and one engineer lost their lives while doing repairing work on the railway tracks.
Police has rushed to the spot.
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New Delhi: The Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC) has scaled down its services on 68 inter-state routes from April 2007 to March this year. As per its Operational Statistics report, DTC had plied buses on 80 inter-state routes in 2007-2008, but from April 2013 to March this year it operated on...

Jaipur: As rains unleash merciless fury in Jammu and Kashmir, Rajasthan has also been witnessing heavy rainfall.
Waterlogging has been reported in many areas of Jodhpur, Bikaner, Ganganagar and Bhilwara.
Three people have died after a mud wall collapsed in Ganganagar, the area having received 185 mm rainfall in a...

The Rajasthan government on Monday said in view of scanty rainfall, the assistance and grants being provided to eight scarcityhit districts will continue till August 15.
Ajmer, Barmer, Bikaner, Jaipur, Jaisalmer, Nagaur, Jodhpur and Pali districts have been earlier declared scarcityhit, a spokesman said quoting a government notification.
In view of poor...

Rights activists in Jaipur on Tuesday accused Ajmer police of shielding three policemen accused of sexually assaulting a eunuch in a police station earlier this month and demanded their immediate arrest.
The eunuch had alleged that she was beaten and raped by three policemen in Dargah police station, Ajmer, on June...

Islamabad: Pakistan on Friday summoned Indian Deputy High Commissioner Gopal Baghlay to lodged a protest over denial of visas to 500 Pakistani pilgrims to visit the famed shrine of Hazrat Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti at Ajmer.
Visits to religious shrines in Pakistan and India are governed under the Bilateral Protocol on Visits...

DTC will be running special buses from Friday to ferry people of neighbouring states and NCR, going on annual 'Urs' at the Sufi shrine in Ajmer, from a transit camp to railway stations in the national capital.
The transit camp has been set up at Burari Ground (Outer Ring Road) as...

Religious head of Ajmer dargah Saiyad Zainul Abedin Ali Khan on Tuesday called upon the people to vote fearlessly and without communal fanaticism to strengthen the democracy.
Without naming anyone, he asked the people to beware of such political and religious leaders who have made speeches to give the elections a...

CJ Kapil Punjabi is a young actor who hails from Ajmer in Rajasthan. Kapil has been in Mumbai for more than three years trying to break into the field of acting and yet feels as an outsider. In this report, Kapil narrates his struggles to CJ's Megha Mamgain.
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Rajasthan Congress on Wednesday accused BJP of provoking sentiments of people for soliciting votes in elections. Addressing a public meeting in Ajmer, Rajasthan PCC president Sachin Pilot said that BJP seeks votes in the name of temple but when it comes to power, they get away from such issues.
Pilot, who...

An alert railway staff on Sunday averted what would have been a major mishap by stopping the New Delhi-Ahmedabad Rajdhani train near Sojat Road station and putting out the smoke coming out of an SLR coach.
A pointman at Sojat Road station, which falls along Ajmer-Marwar Junction route, observed the smoke...

New Delhi: Rajasthan Congress President and MP Sachin Pilot wants to prove the pollsters wrong in his state. Speaking to CNN-IBN, Pilot tried to downplay him being ranked highest in MP performance card done by the ADR. He said, "Jury is out on that and we will know the real...

New Delhi: A day after CNNIBN accessed a handwritten note by terror accused Swami Aseemanand where he denied having given an interview to The Caravan, the magazine has now countered the jailed activist's claims and released the interview's transcripts.
The Caravan magazine on Sunday released transcript of the Aseemanand interview which...

New Delhi: Barely three months ahead of the Lok Sabha elections, a magazine has dropped a bombshell. In its February cover page, The Caravan has carried a story 'The Believer' on Swami Aseemanand, an accused in several terror cases across India between 2006 and 2008.
The article by Leena Gita Reghunath...

Reacting to the allegations by terror suspect Aseemanand naming RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat in the terror strikes in 2007, Shiv Sena along with the BJP defended him saying that Congress and its agencies were working against them and will are pressuring people to give any kind of testimony.
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New Delhi: The RSS has denied its involvement in any terror strike following reports of allegations levelled against its chief Mohan Bhagwat by terror accused Swami Aseemanand. "This is a political conspiracy. Aseemanand has clarified he never said this. We have to see the timing," Ram Madhav, member of the...

New Delhi: Just ahead of the Lok Sabha elections, trouble is brewing for the Bharatiya Janata Party. It's ideological mentor, the RSS, is once again in the news for all the wrong reasons. Accused in the Samjhauta Express, Hyderabad Mecca Masjid and Ajmer Dargah blasts, Swami Aseemanand, has alleged that...

In a landmark judgement, Rajasthan High Court on Wednesday directed the governmentappointed 'Nazim' (administrator) of Ajmer dargah to take charge of collection and distribution of offerings at the shrine.
The court also said that the 'Diwan' (descendant of sufi saint Moinuddin Chishti) and his followers will not be restricted from entering...

New Delhi: Bollywood actress Kangana Ranaut visited the dargah of Sufi saint Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti on Tuesday to seek blessings for her movie 'Rajjo'. The actress visited the dargah with Vishwas Patil, the film's director.
"Kangana and I are visiting Ajmer Sharif for taking Baba's blessings...It's been hundred years of...

New Delhi: The Ajmer dargah blast accused Bhavesh Patel has made a sensational claim by saying that he was forced to implicate RSS leaders by top Congress leaders including Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde. Congress leaders Digvijay Singh, RPN Singh and Sri Prakash Jaiswal have also been named by Patel...

Congress General Secretary Digvijaya Singh refuted Ajmer blast accused Bhavesh Patel charges. He said, "I do not know Bhavesh Patel. He has accepted that he was a member of RSS and that he played a part in the Ajmer blasts. Need to investigate who asked him to write the letter."
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Jaipur: More than 100 small airports will be developed across the country, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said on Saturday while laying the foundation stone of the Kishangarh airport in Rajasthan.
The new airport in Ajmer district, around 120 km from Jaipur, is slated to be operational in three years. Its estimated cost...

Spiritual head (Dewan) of Ajmer Sharif dargah, Zainul Abedin Ali Khan, has announced Rs one lakh each as compensation for the families of five soldiers, killed in attack by Pakistani troops in Jammu and Kashmir.
The compensation will be given from Dewan's share from the offerings made at the shrine. As...

New Delhi: Akshay Kumar and Sonakshi Sinha were recently spotted at Ajmer dargah praying for the success of their upcoming film 'Once Upon Ay Time In Mumbai Dobaara!'. And, accompanying the stars was none other than the producer of the film Ekta Kapoor. It is the third time that Akshay...

Islamabad: One of Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari's most trusted aides was killed in a suspected suicide bombing in the volatile port city of Karachi on Wednesday as he stopped his armoured vehicle to buy some fruit, police said. Pakistan has suffered a spate of bombings since Prime Minister Nawaz...